I looked up that cms site,
and by a quick look over some of the sites that uses this cms, i'm not impressed by it codewise,
lots of fundamental faults,
as they was repeated on all site, it have to be within the plainblack core,

one should avoid using system that spreads missuse and use of corrupted code.

of some of the cms i've used, i've been pretty impressed by eZ publish

Originally posted by Akh I looked up that cms site,
and by a quick look over some of the sites that uses this cms, i'm not impressed by it codewise,
lots of fundamental faults,
as they was repeated on all site, it have to be within the plainblack core,

one should avoid using system that spreads missuse and use of corrupted code.

of some of the cms i've used, i've been pretty impressed by eZ publish

What specifically do you have issues with? I can tell you whether or not it's in the core. A lot of the example sites are ugly, but the system is so trivially templatted that it doesn't have to be that way at all.

BTW, I've evaluated A LOT of different CMS's- Zope/Plone, PHPNuke (barf. . .) and a few other PHP systems, Bricolage, even some of the commerical ones like TeamSite.

all the sites i checked had the same errors in the code, sites linked from the plainblack homepage.
the same errors was on the plainblack site, so it has to be the cms that makes these.

for example they are mixing xhtml and html syntax, not good.
lacking several mandatory attributes.
there is also other issues that could have been avoided, like how they use the css. use of internal css instead of external css

i for one wouldn't use a system that generates that bad code per default.

I'm sorry, when you said "code" I thought you meant actual programming code, and not HTML. HTML isn't code. It's just a markup language.

WebGUI completely separates code from presentation.

Everything is configurable, and the system is such that you can completely throw out the default templates without touching a bit of code and without leaving the web interface. Default templates in every CMS are pretty much worthless- who wants a site that looks like everyone else?

None your issues is default, and they specifically tell you to use external CSS all over the place in the installation documents.

The mixed XHTML/HTML syntax is only for META tags. The system is DTD aware, but this needs to be extended to the META tags as well. This is pretty minor.

So your only real issue is that the default templates, and some of the users, create pages that don't validate? That is a very, very tiny piece of what WebGUI does.

Until you've seen the management tools, you aren't qualified to make a judgement, and if you apply the "doesn't validate" litmus to web pages, you're going to fail nearly everywhere.

i agree with chakotha about the underlines. i would also try to make a search button that would match your site and just a really minor thing, your linex.com and slash.com content areas should go all the way down just to make it look neater other then all that man. its a great looking site and ill be using it personally myself for future reference.